230 BREEDING THE WAR HORSE 



strong teeth and high endurance. It would 

 be most reasonable to breed from Duns. 



As the Royal North-West Mounted PoHce of 

 Canada have double the mobility of any 

 regular troops in the world, their system of 

 getting horses may be worth considering. 

 Certain ranches of Western Canada have im- 

 ported British thoroughbred studs, and bred 

 from range mares a strain known as the 

 Broncho. Averaging fifteen hands two inches, 

 and 1,025 pounds in weight, these gelded 

 horses and mares are raised on range grass 

 under range conditions, broken at the ranches 

 and bought for the Mounted Police at contract 

 rates. 



Ranches in an}^ arid lands of the Empire such 

 as Southern Alberta, South Central British 

 Columbia, Western South Africa, or i\ustralia, 

 would supply a stock for the army much 

 sounder, and more enduring than any horses 

 which can possibly be bred on soft ground or 

 green grass. 



Management. Our analysis of the stable 

 showed the closed shed as a forcing house for 

 disease germs, and the metalled floor as pre- 

 venting a horse from resting on his feet. To 

 copy the natural conditions of healthy range 

 life the building needs the dry floor which 



